Who's behind Waypoint
A CrossFit athlete and engineer, building the tool he wished his own gym had.
Waypoint isn't a side feature bolted onto someone else's app. It's built by one person who trains in these classes every week, and writes software for a living — because the gap between the two kept bothering him.
I left my last gym for exactly the reason Waypoint exists: I went under the radar in a group class, and nobody noticed until I'd already stopped booking in.
Group training — CrossFit, HYROX-style classes, anything run as a WOD for a room of twenty — is brilliant for community and brutal for individual attention. The coach is watching the whole floor, not just you. If your pace, your scaling, or your goals quietly stop matching what's written on the board, that's on you to notice and say something. Most people don't. They just stop coming.
By day I'm a software engineer. By the other half of the day I'm in a class like the ones Waypoint is built for. I kept seeing the same pattern from both sides: gyms have real data on every member — their bests, their attendance, their scaling — and almost none of it gets turned into something that helps a coach catch a member drifting before it's too late to matter.
So I'm building Waypoint the way I'd want it built if I were still the member going quiet in the corner: personal targets that come from your own numbers, a goal with an actual path to it, and a radar that gives the coach the nudge they'd want — not a dashboard full of noise.
CrossFit and HYROX-style group classes — the exact format Waypoint is built for, not a format studied from the outside.
Every line of Waypoint — the pacing math, the goal engine, the coach radar — written by one engineer, end to end.
A gym's data should work for its members' attention, not just its billing. Founding gyms get a direct hand in proving that out.